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CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

“visual elevator music” is a brilliant way of putting it

aka musak
so… vizools?

anyway we are so surprised! who woulda thunk

this is what they did to Bali and yall already forgot.

I want to know what the trials will look like when the tables turn.

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if you need it

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omg! i still have my copy I won in high school. excited for however you’re pulling this in

Screenshot of class website, a grid with an image embodying the theme of each week.

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2]

redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/

Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become 1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

A must-read:

unfortunately it seems a lot of people in positions of power have some combo of those side quests

I can at least confirm that when you don’t have other ambitions (like ladder climbing, empire building, endless wealth hoarding, or a bottomless pit of an ego to fill), as a leader it really does open space and clarity to just focus on what needs to get done

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?

😂🤣

Para todo el mundo: porque no los dos?

Feliz año y feliz ano!

This !!

Ah, yeah. And she’s a sculptor so they’re not mass-produced. I hope you find something and that your hand stops hurting

I exclusively use Bailey Hikawa phone cases at this point, they worked for me while my hand was broken and in a cast, too. Every hand is different tho

i am proudly not an ivy league alum

you know who you won’t see in the epstein files tomorrow? drag queens and trans athletes.

louder for ppl in the back 📣

the Luddites were not inherently anti-tech!

And in case you’re wondering, yes, he was paid substantially more

Also I’ve historically had white male coworkers be shocked at how underpaid I am, particularly for the first 15 years of my career “wait what? but you’re so much smarter than me and so good at whah you do! how…” bruh

The person who replaced me in one of my last jobs thought this and said so during interview “I worry I won’t get this job because I’m a white guy.” They hired him and a year later my whole team was like “He… doesn’t do anything, and he def doesn’t do a even a fraction of what you did”

Aw, well you get to pick a different object for dramatic effect and make the saying yours

OH from parent to child “you know i have shoes older than you?”

to spell this out bluntly:

1. cut / forbid new idea formation and practices that support it
2. tell you you don’t have new ideas

I don’t think it’s the idea machine that needs restarting. It’s the political will / power to serve the thriving-of-many vs the greed-of-few that needs resuscitation

was wondering about this too, i can hear helicopters too

idk all i’m seeing is that you’re cunty and that’s a good thing last i checked